Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season
Northern Illinois paired 15.5 primary output with 26.7 efficiency.
Player Stats
Michael Kennedy College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 98
- TFL
- 16
- Sacks
- 10
- QB hurries
- 7
- Passes defended
- 2
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 45.3 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 0 | 36.8 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 6 | 17 | 2.5 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 32 |
| 2021 Postseason | Northern Illinois | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 41.5 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 13 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 41.5 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 10 | 27 | 6.5 | 6 | 3 | - | 0 | 63.5 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 26.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio
Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
1.6
Efficiency
26.7
Usage
8.1
Consistency
59.7
Best Game by takeover score
Ohio
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Eastern Illinois: 0.5. Tulsa: 2.5. Vanderbilt: 0. Kentucky: 2. Ball State: 0. Toledo: 2. Eastern Michigan: 3. Ohio: 3.5. Central Michigan: 0. Western Michigan: 2
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Eastern Illinois: 3 by 17.5. Tulsa: 2 by 33.3. Vanderbilt: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 5 by 40.8. Ball State: 3 by 12.5. Toledo: 2 by 28.3. Eastern Michigan: 1 by 34.2. Ohio: 6 by 60. Central Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Western Michigan: 1 by 24.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.8 · Games = 3 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses1.4 · Games = 7 · -0.4 vs Wins
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